I can only get to certain sites all of a sudden? Help!

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Originally Posted by artwilliams

I would think so too but it worked for me. Funny, I ended up having the same problem as babymaker. A website that I am developing suddenly disappeared from my computers at home (Linux and Windows). I could view it on my Android phone browsers though. Changing to Open DNS on my wifi modem (provided by my ISP) instantly fixed everthing.

If you set it on the computer, it will override the settings in the modem. If you have your computer to obtain an IP address automatically, and have it set to obtain DNS servers, then it would pull it from the modem (or gateway).

If you set the DNS servers on your computer, it would override the settings from the modem.

A while back there was a virus that would change the DNS settings on gateways through javascript. It is also possible that is what happened, and, one of the DNS servers happened to get shut down. It would be interesting to see what the previous DNS settings were.

http://cd34.com/blog/web-security/ma...middle-attack/ was one potential outcome.